Making the Latino South : a history of racial formation / Cecilia Márquez
- Author
- Márquez, Cecilia
- Published
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Physical Description
- xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series
- Summary
- "The presence of Latinx people in the American South has long confounded the region's persistent racial binaries. Here, Cecilia Márquez uses social and cultural history methods to assess the racial logics that have shaped the Latinx experience in the region since the middle of the twentieth century. Structuring her argument around several major themes that frequently signpost the history of the South and of race relations in the United States-- the rise of an increasingly mobile middle class, the civil rights movement and fight over school integration, the growth global connection of the region's economy, and political conflict over immigration -- Márquez reveals how Latinx people in the South have confronted both whiteness and antiblackness, and how cultural boundaries to exclude Black people from full participation in the life of the region and nation have been essential to the construction of Latinx as a category"--
- Subject(s)
- 1900-1999
- Hispanic Americans—Southern States—Social conditions—20th century
- Latin Americans—Race identity—Southern States
- Hispanic Americans—Race identity—Southern States
- Latin Americans—Southern States—Ethnic identity
- Hispanic Americans—Southern States—Ethnic identity
- Racism—Social aspects—Southern States
- Hispanic Americans—Ethnic identity
- Hispanic Americans—Social conditions
- Latin Americans—Ethnic identity
- Latin Americans—Social conditions
- Race relations—Social aspects
- Latin Americans—Southern States—Social conditions—20th century
- Southern States
- Southern States—Race relations—Social aspects
- ISBN
- 9781469676043 hardcover
1469676044 hardcover
9781469676050 paperback
1469676052 paperback
9781469676067 electronic book
9781469676074 electronic book - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- James F. Robb Fund
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